{"id":450,"date":"2022-02-05T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2022-02-13T21:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:17:31","slug":"about-ekbert-faas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?page_id=450","title":{"rendered":"About Ekbert Faas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ekbert Faas 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ekbert Faas pursued his studies in Munich, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Rome, and London. A full professor of English Literature after completing two Ph.Ds (Dr. phil. and Dr. habil.) in Germany, he left Europe to restart his career under a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies in New York. A biographer, novelist, and critic, he has had a lifelong interest in art theory, especially in evolving a new aesthetics based on the cognitive and evolutionary sciences finally systematized in the first publication listed below. Early results of these endeavours include,\u00a0Tragedy and After: Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe<\/em>\u00a0(McGill-Queen\u2019s),\u00a0Shakespeare\u2019s Poetics<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge),\u00a0Retreat into the Mind. Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry<\/em>\u00a0(Princeton), and\u00a0The Genealogy of Aesthetics<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge). Since his highly acclaimed\u00a0Woyzeck\u2019s Head<\/em>, he has also continued his work as a novelist, most recently with\u00a0Terrorists<\/em>, featuring early Communist agitators\/theoreticians Marx, Bakunin, and Nechaev,\u00a0Col\u00f3n \u00b7 Aguilar \u00b7 Cort\u00e9s<\/em>\u00a0highlighting Cortez\u2019 interpreter Ger\u00f3nimo, di Aguilar and\u00a0In Search of Dante: Gemma and Boccaccio<\/em>. Faas\u2019 major scholarly endeavour over recent years,\u00a0Under Dante\u2019s Shadow: Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Alternative Tradition<\/em>\u00a0will be published in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favourite Reading<\/strong>
Homer, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Hobbes, B\u00fcchner, Rimbaud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Strindberg, Kalidasa, Bhagavad-Gita<\/em>, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below follows a list of his major publications, with critical summaries and appraisals<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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